Google will publish less AI research to compete with OpenAI

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Google tells staff it plans to limit publishing AI research to 'compete and keep knowledge in house' as its rivalry with Microsoft's OpenAI heats up

People worked at Brain specifically because they could publish so freely, one former researcher said, which means the new mandate could cause tension. At the same time, they added that they left to start their own company because Google was slow and bureaucratic. Making anything happen at Brain"was like turning a ship."and raised money off the back of seminal research papers they helped author.

Daniel De Freitas, the creator of Google's first chatbot, departed after the company hesitated to release a product, fearing that a generative AI-powered chatbot would say things it shouldn't and cause the company reputational or financial damage,. Google eventually rushed Bard out following the launch of ChatGPT — though the search giant's chatbot had first been demoed years earlier.

"The lesson to learn is that we need to actually ship stuff, but that's a work in progress," said one Brain researcher., Timnit Gebru, over a paper she published criticizing large language models. Google later pushed out her colleague and Ethics AI co-lead Margaret Mitchell, leading to an exodus within its ethics division. , and said he was concerned about the potential for artificial intelligence to cause harm.

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